Sushytsky, Teoktyst [Сушицький, Теокист; Sušyc'kyj], b 3 January 1883 in Kyiv, d January 1920 in Uman, Kyiv gubernia. Literary scholar and civic figure. A privatdocent at Kyiv University, in March 1917 he was appointed director of the new Second Ukrainian State Gymnasium in Kyiv. In April he chaired the Ukrainian Pedagogical Congress. He was appointed secretary of the Ukrainian people’s university in Kyiv in October and a lecturer at the Ukrainian Pedagogical Academy in November. In October 1918 the Hetman government appointed him professor of Ukrainian literature and rector of the Ukrainian State University of Kyiv. He also directed a department of the Hetman government’s Ministry of Education. His major work, a study of Western Rus’ chronicles as literary monuments (2 vols, 1921, 1929), was published after his death by the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in the serial Zbirnyk Istorychno-filolohichnoho viddilu VUAN.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]